M 4.6 in Honduras on 24 Aug 2013 18:59 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 1003396
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 5.8 Km
Lat/Lon: 15.1675 , -87.5716
Event Date: 24 Aug 2013 18:59 UTC
24 Aug 2013 12:59 Local
Exposed Population:
2946392 people within 100km
Inserted at: 24 Aug 2013 19:24 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
usb000jbep Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),